Luciana Berger, Labour's shadow minister for mental health, who commissioned the research, said that "overworked and overtired" doctors would be bad for patient care.
But he reassured the writer that he wasn't really gloomy, merely overtired.
If we hadn't gone to Dr. G.'s, we would have assumed that she was simply overtired, but now we had a different interpretative framework, one founded on fear.
He thought he was just overtired from the hard work he had done since the bombing, but after the fever had persisted for a few days, he sent for a doctor.
You were not overwhelmed but overtired.
They could come from a joke; they could come because someone is just overtired.
But the adolescent was becoming overtired.
We were overtired and overexcited, and we set upon the mini-bar with terrible abandon.
He then apologises to Prior, who isn't angry, just disappointed, and wonders if he might be overtired or showing off to his friends.
I could give more examples, but frankly – as so many of us have been these last 450 years – I am overtired.
He once declared he was overworked, overtired and sponsored by Nurofen, but, he says, the daily grind has not yet sapped his zeal for ministry: "I don't find myself having to flog myself through the day because something always happens that's intensely moving.
